The pervasiveness of online information services has led to substantial changes in higher education including changes in faculty members’ teaching methods and students’ study habits. This article presents the results of a survey about media use for teaching and learning conducted at a large Canadian university and highlights trends in the use of new and traditional media across university Facul...

It has been stated that this new area of education includes preparation of teachers and students for the selective and active reception and creative use of media, which means developing new educational curricula as popularised by the media on a micro

We propose a new hierarchical model of online and offline advertising. This model incorporates within-media synergies and cross-media synergies and allows higher-order interactions among various media. We derive the optimal spending on each medium and the optimal total budget. We also develop three hypotheses on the effects of withinand across-media synergies on both the total budget and its al...

Background Recently, there has been a fast growth in the use of different kind of media especially in adolescents. Media literacy education is supported by numerous national organizations and institute as a potential tool to decrease negative media effects and to increase desirable use of media. However, there are little documents about their effects. This study was conducted to investigate the...

This article critically examines the development of an innovative approach to educational broadcasting in post-apartheid South Africa. Examining the policy background and the public debate sparked by the controversial drama series, Yizo Yizo, it is argued that the spatial restructuring of media markets re-articulates the sites and scales at which media practices and citizenship are connected. Y...

INTRODUCTION Upper respiratory tract infection is a nonspecific term used to describe an acute infection involving the nose, paranasal sinuses, pharynx and larynx. Upper respiratory tract infections in children are often associated with Eustachian tube dysfunction and complicated by otitis media, an inflammatory process within the middle ear. Environmental, epidemiologic and familial risk facto...

Modern educational Web sites often feature a rich assortment of linked media content. In this paper, we present a workload study of such an educational Web site hosted at the University of Calgary. Three main insights emerge from our study. First, educational Web sites can generate large volumes of Internet traffic, even when the number of users is limited. Second, network usage is highly influ...

We analyze the requirements for an educational Question Answering (QA) system operating on social media content. As a result, we identify a set of advanced natural language processing (NLP) technologies to address the challenges in educational QA. We conducted an inter-annotator agreement study on subjective question classification in the Yahoo!Answers social Q&A site and propose a simple, but ...